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Perhaps it's been changed since you posted this link but I see nothing about microalgae being plants.

• munificent 10y ago
  From the article: "Unlike higher plants, microalgae do not have roots, stems, or leaves." "Higher" here to me implies microalgae are also plants, otherwise the qualifier isn't needed. The article for "algae" says: "No definition of algae is generally accepted. One definition is that algae 'have chlorophyll as their primary photosynthetic pigment and lack a sterile covering of cells around their reproductive cells'. Some authors exclude all prokaryotes thus do not consider cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) as algae." So it seems a little silly to me to split hairs about whether algae are plants in an popular audience news article about a food product.